Council makes donation to Horsham Show

A local council is donating $10,000 to the Horsham Agricultural Society so it can run this year's show in the Wimmera.

The annual event was in doubt earlier this year because of a reduction in attendance, a lack of volunteer support and financial pressure.

However, this week, the Horsham council's Graeme Harrison says staff agreed to offer another $5,000 for the event to run until next year.

"The money for this financial year's coming from council's contingency and for next financial year, it'll be from our community donations program," he said.

He says the two parties have discussed the need to come up with new ideas to revitalise the show.

"Council sees it as an important community event that happens in Horsham and it's keen to see it continue and be successful," he said.

"So essentially it's wanting to provide the support in order to see it be successful but realise that ... it's not something we're going to be able to do as an ongoing thing, it's just really to help them out."